P4C800-E destroying SATA drives?

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  1. gdbsti

    gdbsti

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    Greetings all!

    I've done a search of the forums but not found exactly what I'm looking for so hope someone can help here.

    I have a P4C800-E which has been running stable aside of one minor issue. I'm going through seagate 80GB SATA drives. They are setup to mirror for redundancy but have now had 3 failures. The latest failure has messed up the directory on the good drive, and I've lost a bunch of important info. Sigh..

    Has anyone else experienced a problem with the Seagate 80gb SATA drives on this Mobo? It's running:

    Antec 450W power supply
    2x 30gb IBM deskstar IDE
    2x 80gb SATA Raid 1 on fastrack controller
    1gb pc3200 mushkin ram
    10% oc'ed

    Cheers!
    Br
     
    gdbsti, Oct 17, 2006
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    U do overcloking?

    I have P4C800 Deluxe (slight variance from urs), dont have such issue.

    ever tried with Seagate SeaTools to check drive problem?
     
    iiee, Oct 17, 2006
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  3. gdbsti

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    Overclocked @ 10%. Mine is a deluxe board as well.

    Had run seagate tools and repaired bad sector but it was at the directory so all is more or less gone.

    I guess I'm just having a bad run of drives. Unusual as the seagates are normaly so good. Oh well, time to replace them both again.

    Cheers
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    My board is without the "E" version. different in ICH and LAN controller i think.

    Seagate drives are good, just DO NOT buy if made from China.

    I am not sure if the Promise controller can tolerate overclocking (whether the AGP/PCI lock will lock it). 10% is 146Mhz.
     
    iiee, Oct 18, 2006
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